The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set

‘The attention to Finch’s accomplishments and the notes about the events and personages mentioned in the works result in a resource that offers a unique understanding of Finch’s status in her own time. The documentation alone makes it valuable to serious students and scholars of 18th-century literature.’ M. H. Kealy, Choice‘The two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch: Countess of Winchelsea allows us to imagine an alternative Age of Finch. The editors, Claudia Kairoff and Jennifer Keith, have completed with astonishing thoroughness, sensitivity, and seriousness one of the landmark pieces of eighteenth-century scholarship of this century … Against centuries of incomplete attention to Finch, Keith and Kairoff have “redeemed” her in a triumphant act of feminist intervention and recovery.’ Andrew Black, Digital Defoe‘Jennifer Keith and her coeditors, as well as Cambridge University Press, are to be applauded for this monumental editorial achievement. A new generation of scholars can now access Finch’s works in this authoritative edition with extensive textual and explanatory notes and compare the manuscript and published versions. In doing so, they can begin to place Finch in the context of her literary predecessors, both male and female, and contemporaries, such as the Jacobite Jane Barker.’ Mihoko Suzuki, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Jennifer Keith is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she has taught since 1997. She is the author of Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper (2005) and numerous essays on poetry from the Restoration to the Romantic era. With the staff of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro she developed The Anne Finch Digital Archive, an open-access site that supplements this edition. Keith and Claudia Thomas Kairoff were awarded a long-term fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library for work on this edition. Keith also received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant for this critical edition and the digital archive. She is a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Claudia Thomas Kairoff is Professor of English at Wake Forest University, where she has taught since 1986. She is the author of Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (1994) and Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century (2012), and co-editor, with Catherine Ingrassia, of ‘More Solid Learning’: New Critical Perspectives on Alexander Pope’s Dunciad (2000). She has written numerous articles and book chapters on Pope and on women poets. Kairoff and Jennifer Keith were awarded a long-term fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Folger Shakespeare Library for work on this edition. She is a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.